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Erica Schemper

Erica Schemper is a Presbyterian minister and displaced Chicagoan living on the San Francisco Peninsula, where she and her children enjoy the weather and scenery while her husband toils away at his tech job. When she's not driving her children to school, or chasing them through redwood groves, across chilly beaches, or on the playgrounds of the greater San Francisco area, she spends her time writing and working at the Director of Children and Youth at her neighborhood Lutheran church.

Just a block away from seven figures
EssayOctober 12, 2015

Just a block away from seven figures

By Erica Schemper

here’s a moment in the evenings in northern California when you can feel the heat of the day let go: after dinner, before sunset….

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